If you had £5000 to spend on your current lude

Free Ranj Egg · Post by **Free Ranj Egg** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:05 pm

Hello luders,

If you had £5000 to spend (not that I have lol) do spend on your prelude what you do? Im sitting here on my lunch break bored shitless at work.

The rules are that the 5k needs to be spent based on as your car is now...

Mine could do with a bit of TLC and its done some decent mileage, a few parts could do with uprating/changing or an overhaul.

With the 5k budget I would (prices are average based on calculated guesses...)

- Replace the suspension with a fully adjustable kit - £500
- Get a performance stainless steel exhaust with a down pipe and decat- £750
- Purchase some Civic R alloys with some new rubber - lets say £600
- Buy an accord r single runner manifold and get that fitted - £300.
- Purchase a double sin Sat Nav headunit - £500
- Possibly get the rust taken out of the car and a small respray/touch ups - £500
- MP24 gearbox - £400 with fitting
- possibly some aggressive cams with fitting and get the valve clearances checked and a the head looked at -say £500
- Apexi Neo or some form of aftermarket ECU - say Hondata for arguments sake - £500
- Upgrade my ICE - £450

Theres £5k gone.... god it easy to spend imaginary money... lol

Who wants to go next....

Post by **Drax** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:19 pm

i'd throw 5k at Performance Autoworks along with my build and say "finish this please"

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:30 pm

I had and I did.

As it is now? TBH, I'd probably throw it at chassis/bodywork protection and respray.

Post by **4thgenphil** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:34 pm

buy another, dip it, stitch weld it fia cage and have it completey sprayed as a oner and then transfer over all my bits

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:58 pm

MSA cage

You wont need an FIA one unless you are in a serious race series. For my race car I'd probably do the same, but it is a money pit so I could realistically spend multiple £5ks and still not be satisfied

My road car:

ATR intake manifold 150
Hondata thermal gasket 55
Skunk 2 Pro 68mm TB 190
IACV adapter plate 20
EGR balnking plate 10

Hytech replica manifold 375
Custom Sports CAT 160
Custom 2.5" SS exhasut 600

Quaife Torsen diff 726
Fitting of diff 150

Rota GTR 17" 610
Uniroyal RainSport 3's 215/45/17 240
MeisterR Zeta-R coilovers 750

Hondata with P28 600
Dyno tuning 300
OBDII -> OBDI conversion harness 64

Total 5000

Free Ranj Egg · Post by **Free Ranj Egg** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:23 pm

Money well spent lol...

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:46 pm

Drax wrote:i'd throw 5k at Performance Autoworks along with my build and say "finish this please"

Which is what I just did.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:07 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:
Drax wrote:i'd throw 5k at Performance Autoworks along with my build and say "finish this please"
Which is what I just did.

and yet its still not finished

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:38 pm

Still at the machine shop.

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:33 pm

Engine fully re built and serviced (£1000)
Suspension all bushes replaced and new coil-overs (£1000)
Car rust sorted out and re-sprya the parts that need doing to bring the colour back to OEM perfection (£1700)
New after market wheels (Work Emotions CR or something similar - 17x8" with new tyres) (£1300)

That's what I would do to my TypeS..